M 5.6 in Vanuatu on 04 Mar 2021 14:10 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1258569
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.0868 , 171.8664
Event Date: 04 Mar 2021 14:10 UTC
05 Mar 2021 01:10 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2021 15:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfgg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 722 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Call for Vanuatu disaster officials to resign in aftermath of tsunami ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 04:42:00 +0100.

The former deputy prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, has called on top disaster officials to resign over the lack of immediate tsunami warnings last week. Napat said the Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Direc
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Call for Vanuatu disaster officials to resign in aftermath of tsunami ... Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:51:00 +0100.

The former deputy prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, has called on top disaster officials to resign over the lack of immediate tsunami warnings last week. Napat said the Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Dire
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Call for Vanuatu disaster officials to resign in aftermath of tsunami ... Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:21:00 +0100.

The former deputy prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, has called on top disaster officials to resign over the lack of immediate tsunami warnings last week. Napat said the Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Dire
...(more)
Call for Vanuatu disaster officials to resign in aftermath of tsunami ... Sun, 07 Mar 2021 20:59:00 +0100.

The former deputy prime minister of Vanuatu, Jotham Napat, has called on top disaster officials to resign over the lack of immediate tsunami warnings last week. Napat said the Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change and the Dire
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),